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Junior Infrastructure Engineer Exclusive Opportunity ! Location: Predominantly office-based Hours: Monday – Friday The Opportunity A fantastic opportunity for a 1st Line Support Engineer ready to step up into infrastructure and networking. This role offers hands-on exposure across core IT operations while gaining real-world experience in networking and cyber security within a supportive, growth-focused environment. If you’ve mastered the basics of service desk support and want to move beyond password resets into real infrastructure engineering — this is your next step. Responsibilities: • Managing and resolving IT support tickets (2nd line level exposure), • Handling password resets, account administration, and access controls, • Laptop and desktop builds, imaging, and deployments, • Supporting Microsoft 365 and core business systems, • Assisting with network support and troubleshooting, • Supporting hardware, software, and peripheral issues, • Contributing to cyber security best practices and security monitoring, • Approx 1 year experience in a 1st Line / Service Desk role, • Strong troubleshooting mindset and customer service skills, • Experience with laptop builds and user administration, • Genuine interest in infrastructure, networking, and cyber security, • Eagerness to learn and progress technically

Business Unit: Chief Operating Office Salary range: £48,000 to £60,000 per annum DOELocation: UK Hybrid with occasional travel to a UK Virgin Money Hub when requiredContract type: Permanent - Full time Our Team Platform as a Service (PaaS) team holds a pivotal position in shaping the future of our platform services on our Technology Estate, defining and executing the strategic vision for our PaaS offerings, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and innovation in our platform services. The Lead Platform Engineer is a senior technical authority within the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Windows Server Team, responsible for shaping, securing, and sustaining the bank's enterprise Windows Server and Active Directory estate. The role provides deep technical expertise, strategic influence, and leadership across incident response, change delivery, lifecycle management, and platform improvement initiatives. It also acts as a mentor and escalation point for Senior Platform Engineers, strengthening operational excellence and resilience. A focus for this role is a comprehensive understanding of Microsoft Active Directory (AD). Leading the strategy, configuration, health, and lifecycle of the enterprise Active Directory environment, which underpins all internal and external customer services. The role requires development and maintenance of robust disaster recovery procedures, including recovery from ransomware, site loss, directory corruption, and complex DR scenarios. As Lead Engineer, you will be a technical escalation point for Windows Server and VMWare environments. You will be expected to provide mentorship, coaching, and guidance to Senior and Junior Engineers along with supporting capability uplift across the team. You will push for best-practice adoption in design, troubleshooting, automation, and recovery procedures. Required focus on operational integrity and performance of the Windows Server estate, ensuring stability, compliance, and service availability across the bank. This includes leading on major upgrades, migrations, platform refreshes, and optimisation work to align with strategic technology direction. Managing change and delivery is a key part of the role. Experience collaborating with delivery teams, architects, and infrastructure designer, to influence and implement platform changes and new services end-to-end is essential, whilst safeguarding platform integrity through controlled change processes, ensuring risk and impact assessments reflect enterprise expectations. Operational Resilience, Vulnerability Management, Security update scheduling, GPO and deployment of updates to the Windows server estate is a key part of the role, so experience in this area is crucial. What you'll be doing • Working closely within and alongside other teams within Technology Operations Cyber Security (TOCS) and 3rd parties, • Collaborating with project teams to ensure that change within the environment is managed and controlled effectively., • Lead expertise in 3rd line support of Microsoft Active Directory and other enterprise services delivered to Virgin Money internal and external customers., • The role holder will have a high level of responsibility for identifying, analysing, quantifying, and communicating technical risk within the banks on premise & cloud platforms., • The role may require occasional evening or weekend work for patch deployment, system upgrades\changes., • Working closely with 1st and 2nd tier support teams to deliver a professional effective enterprise support offering., • Project lifecycles including (but not be limited to) design influence, infrastructure build and test, • Supporting and mentoring Engineers within the immediate team, • A strong understanding of the best practices of installing, configuring and managing Microsoft Active Directory and its key components - TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, GPO, etc., • Strong demonstratable experience of recovering Active Directory when faced with directory corruption and other disaster scenarios., • High level of experience in IT security, system administration, or a similar role with a focus on security update management and system introduction\upgrades, • Vast experience supporting Windows Server Operating System (Install, Configure, Manage), • Demonstratable experience using MS Failover Clustering (Install, Configure, Manage), • Demonstratable experience administering SCCM (Install, Configure, Manage) & SCOM, • Understanding of cybersecurity principles, vulnerability management, and system optimisation, • Possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence and drive change in a collaborative manner., • High level experience working in a highly governed and controlled IT environment, • Possess Microsoft Certification relating to Active Directory, • Experience of extending Microsoft Active Directory into the Azure Cloud, • Experience of Opentext Identity Manager., • Experience of Broadcom VMware., • 25 days holiday per year, increasing over time to 30. Plus, an option to buy more, giving you even more choice., • Private medical insurance, • A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for retirement, • Access to an annual performance-related bonus, • Training and development to help you progress your career, • A great selection of additional benefits through our flexible benefits scheme, • Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones Say hello to Virgin Money Virgin Money is so much more than just a bank. As part of the?Nationwide group,?together we're the UK's first full-service mutual bank serving millions of retail and business customers and

Location: Newcastle area preferred, with willingness to travel across the UK Job Type: Full-time About Primed Talent Primed Talent delivers Digital Skills Bootcamps and ASF-funded programmes across England, helping learners build careers in high-demand digital sectors through strong employer, community, and partner networks. Role Overview We are looking for a dynamic, self-motivated, and commercially aware Junior Business Development Executive to support learner mobilisation and employer engagement across our programmes. This role has two key areas of focus: • 70% community and partner-led learner mobilisation Key Responsibilities Community and Partner-led Mobilisation (70%) • Build relationships with alumni, community groups, local organisations, and referral partners to generate learner enrolments., • Develop repeatable local channels to support consistent cohort mobilisation., • Plan and run seasonal or campaign-based outreach with clear messaging and follow-up., • Work closely with the delivery team to move prospective learners from interest to enrolment., • Monitor pipeline activity and help maintain a healthy learner funnel. Employer Partnerships and Corporate Engagement (30%) • Build a pipeline of employers hiring entry-level talent in IT Support, Cloud, Data, Cyber Security, and Software., • Convert employer conversations into interviews, placements, and hires., • Run structured outreach through LinkedIn, email, and phone., • Support the development of repeatable outreach messaging and engagement approaches., • Work with internal teams to align employer demand with learner profiles and programme outcomes. Skills and Experience · Strong communication and relationship-building skills · Proactive, organised, and self-driven approach · Confidence in external outreach and stakeholder engagement · Ability to manage follow-ups and multiple workstreams effectively · Willingness to travel across the UK · Experience in business development, outreach, partnerships, learner recruitment, employer engagement, or sales · Experience in training, education, employability, or workforce development · Familiarity with CRM tools or pipeline tracking Salary and Incentives • Market-aligned salary, • Uncapped bonus and commission structure Eligibility / Right to Work • Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application., • Applications will only be considered from candidates who are UK citizens or otherwise have an existing and valid right to work in the UK without sponsorship.

Location: Newcastle (NE1 / Ouseburn) Salary: £28,000 – £32,000 (Based on experience) Role Type: Permanent, Full-Time The Opportunity We are a small, agile IT firm. We are currently scaling our UK operations and are looking for our first Junior IT Project Manager in Newcastle. This isn't a "cog in the machine" corporate role. If you are looking for rapid responsibility and the chance to see exactly how a tech company grows, this is for you. The Role You will be the glue that holds our projects together. You’ll manage timelines, coordinate with our technical resources, and ensure our financial sector clients receive a world-class experience. What you'll do: • Own the project schedule—keeping us on track and on budget., • Act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders., • Help us establish our new Newcastle office (we’re just moving in!)., • Learn the "ins and outs" of Cyber Security in a high-stakes environment. Who we’re looking for: • Ambition over Experience: You might be a recent graduate or have 1 year of experience. What matters is your drive and organizational skill., • Problem Solvers: You don't wait for instructions; you see a gap and fill it., • Local to Newcastle: You want to be part of the city’s growing tech scene., • Adaptability: You’re comfortable with the "startup life"—where no two days are the same. #NewcastleJobs #StartupLife #CyberSecurity #ProjectManagement #HiringNewcastle

Junior Infrastructure Engineer Exclusive Opportunity ! Location: Predominantly office-based Hours: Monday – Friday The Opportunity A fantastic opportunity for a 1st Line Support Engineer ready to step up into infrastructure and networking. This role offers hands-on exposure across core IT operations while gaining real-world experience in networking and cyber security within a supportive, growth-focused environment. If you’ve mastered the basics of service desk support and want to move beyond password resets into real infrastructure engineering — this is your next step. Responsibilities: • Managing and resolving IT support tickets (2nd line level exposure), • Handling password resets, account administration, and access controls, • Laptop and desktop builds, imaging, and deployments, • Supporting Microsoft 365 and core business systems, • Assisting with network support and troubleshooting, • Supporting hardware, software, and peripheral issues, • Contributing to cyber security best practices and security monitoring, • Escalating and working alongside senior infrastructure engineers Ideally you will have: • Approx 1 year experience in a 1st Line / Service Desk role, • Strong troubleshooting mindset and customer service skills, • Experience with laptop builds and user administration, • Genuine interest in infrastructure, networking, and cyber security, • Eagerness to learn and progress technically